Robert (Roberto, Reuven) Bonfil an important scholar of pre-modern Jewish history and modern Jewish historiography.

[1][2] He is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

[1] His work focuses on the history of the Jews in Italy and the history of the Jews in the Byzantine Empire.

[3] He was born in 1937 in Greece and is a Holocaust survivor.

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